Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-09

IloIe name through the massacre OF
the English Bishop Huntington and
his fifty companions. AT that time
an officer of Gordon, contrary to.
the instructions of the latter, had marched
with 800 men TO the capital city of Uganda
with a pronounced intention to orcupy that
country. Enin EGendi was sent after him
with an order to instantly bring back the de-
tachment, III which he was So successful that
not a shot was fred 10 disturb the peaceable
relations then existing.
Ofstill greater Importance was BIS successin
inducing the king of Unyoro-Gordon' neigh
Dor of Albert Nyanza, the lake into which
the Somerset Nile enters from tile east-to
make u lasting peace, for it would have been
an easy matter for this ruler to sweep Cor
don and his little troop from the face of the
earth. In acknowledgment OF these services
Gordon in 1878 made Bmin governor of the
Egyptlan equatorial provinces, with the rank
OF hey. 1t was no ~sinecure which was thus
conferred upon him, and his work was not
made the lighter when Gordon soon after re-
signed his post as general governor of the
Soudan.
The slave dealers who had so long been held
down with iron rigor again raised their
heads; discomfort showed itself on every
hand, and IL needed such men as Emin Bey
and the Italian Gessi, who had at the same
time been appointed governor OF the Bafr-
EEGhasan, to bring order ont OF this general
chaos.
In less than two years most OF the stations
were rebuilt and all, about forty in number,
connected by .ae.:ts CT q ~tecisiyy postal ser
vice, and the district very thoroughly purified
of the slave dealers. And while formerly the
equatorial provinces had required for their
administration en- ietaaanrsial subsidy of G3S,000
llinin Bey three years later could show a bal
allce of 5000. Yet the taxes had not been
raised, only strict economy and the abolish
nient Of grave abuses had brought about this
result. Good streets bad been made, wagons
htiilt and oxen Injured to. the yoke. The peo-
pie have learned 10 weave and the prepara-
ton Of soap and the collecting Of cotton, rice,
indigo aud wheat have been introduced.
With all this Ethin Bey has found time to
explore most infinitely his dominion and the
neighholisg countries. III his capacity Of
governor he investigated the western coun-
tries Of tho Mwutan Nsiga, there took new
aud correct surveys and collected much ,aa-
terial OF an ettlnograpltcal md linguistic
character,
Again, in tho first half OF last year he made
q second journey 10 the western shore of the
Mwltan, crossed the lake to Kibero, on the
EASTERN shore, aud then returned to The Wads
eiai, q little TO the north Of this lake on the
left shore of the Nile.
IT is here that he has now for some time
held his headquarters, having changed from
Lado, which is further to the north, in hope
of being able toeommuuicate from there with
the western coast of Africa. However, ali The
attempts made in this direction came TO
naught through the hostility of the snspic-
ions ruler of Uganda, who, through fear of
losing his dominion, will in no wise permit
the passing through of Europeans.
Nevertheless, DR.. Junker, Who, with the
Italian, Capt. Casati, was long the guest of
Elnin Bey, succeeded, by going around the ter
ritory of this MUCH feared African potentate.
i'll getting to South Zanzibar, and from there
to Cairo by q more western route.
And in this certainly Emin Bey and the
Italian explorer would also succeed, but Emin
refuses to abandon The men intfusted 70 him.
who have for SO long Il time stood by him in
danger and peril, without wages or clothing,
and with such poor fare, to the cruel fate
which would certainly be inflicted on the
leaderless troops by the slave dealers. He in.
tertds to conduct them through the southern
country 60 the coast. AZ present, however,
this wa is distracted. Neither Lenz nol
Fischer have hcen able to make their way &c
him. What they have not succeeded in ac
complishing Stanley, Joseph Thomson anG
the Italian, Capt. Massari. are now attempt
ing.